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• Science Film for the Modern Viewer

  …The International Science Film Festival “World of Knowledge” was first organized by the studio Lennauchfilm and the National Committee “Russia’s Intellectual Resources” in February of 2006. The festival includes an international competition, a non-competition program and a special program. Even in its first years, the festival had already attracted guests from more t…

  23.10.2017

• Safety, Resource Conservation and New Motivation Solutions - What Laboratories of the Future Should Look Like

  …b space design are constantly changing. Major corporations are looking into such concepts as active co-working spaces, labs and optimization of working processes using cutting-edge technology and principles of sustainable development. “One of the recurring problems of the last few decades was the inefficient use of laboratory spaces and buildings of the pharmace…

  20.10.2017

• Open Innovations: Future According to Jack Ma and Michio Kaku

  …rch. Digital education But what should education be like in the era of digital economy? It is doubtful that in the future our children will need to possess the same knowledge that we’d learned as kids, believes former school teacher and translator, now billionaire and the richest man in China – Jack Ma. They will also not have our concerns about the millions of…

  18.10.2017

• Silicon Valley Insights: 8 Global Trends in Tech

  …’t see. Loans, various personal finance management formats – these are just some of the many solutions that new companies are working on. IBM's X-Force Command, a cutting-edge cybersecurity facility. Credit: ibm.com Cybersecurity Investments here are also growing. For instance, in the recent years one of the biggest investors in cybersecurity was Israel. O…

  17.10.2017

• Lighting Design Conference: A Bright Future For St. Petersburg

  …w analytical tools will help determine their effectiveness on the preliminary stages, reducing risks and cutting costs. Lighting will stop being a tool – it is a full-fledged part of a smart city, says Michael Mullins, associate professor at Aalborg University’s (Denmark) Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology and board member of Lighting Metr…

  16.10.2017

• How to Change the World Through Cooking

  …king does not require any special equipment – to achieve impressive results, all you need is an understanding of the nature of the underlying processes. You can cook with knowledge or with intuition. I don’t claim that knowledge makes your food tastier, but it will at least help you cook exactly what you wanted to. If you know how it wo…

  13.10.2017

• Spaceports: Where They Are and How to Get There

  … based on those engines. In 1932, the two were combined into the Reaction-Engine Science Research Institute. Getting into space Laika the astronaut dog Where is the edge of space? The physical “border” of space is called the Karman line. When planes fly through the atmosphere, they have to constantly exert force to stay in the air; in space, all flight is …

  12.10.2017

• ITMO Graduate from India on Benefits of Double Degree

  …y new manner than the one I’d been used to. Overall, during my stay at the university, I learned not only about Big Data and high-performance computing – I also gained knowledge which opened my eyes to new things and and motivated me to pursue a career in this field. Before I came to ITMO, I possessed a completely different approach and knowledge and skills and the needs of their employers. This new Olympiad was developed in order for each participant to be able to evaluate his or her abilities for future work and how knowl

  09.10.2017

• Promising Projects: ITMO to Fund Innovative Ideas by Young Scientists (Part 1)

  …es and Optoelectronics. As of now, the project is transitioning from the research stage to the development stage; the developers have conducted a review of the current knowledge in the relevant field, compiled the requirements for the basic elements of the module, determined the required components and fleshed out the design and structure of it. Soon, a project te…

  09.10.2017